Consensus Building in Group Decision Making Searching the Consensus Path with Minimum Adjustments /

• Main Authors: Dong, Yucheng (Author), Xu, Jiuping (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Business.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Information technology.; Business > Data processing.; Social policy.; Business and Management.; IT in Business.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Social Policy.

This book is intended for researchers and postgraduates who are interested in the consensus reaching process in group decision-making problems. It puts forward new optimization-based decision support approaches to help decision-makers find roadmaps to consensus with minimum adjustments. Simulation e...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Part I: Introduction
• Group decision making
• Consensus reaching process
• Part II: Consensus models with the minimum adjustments and aggregation operators
• Minimum adjustments consensus models
• Maximum expert consensus models
• Part III: Consensus in the multiple attribute group decision making
• Consensus rule I: minimizing the distance between original and adjusted preferences
• Consensus rule II: minimizing the number of adjusted preference values
• Interactive multiple attribute consensus framework to support consensus reaching
• Part IV: Consensus in the group decision making with preference relations
• Individual consistency issues in preference relations
• Consensus framework with minimum adjustments to integrate the individual consistency
• Part V: Consensus in the linguistic group decision making
• Linguistic consensus model with minimum adjustments
• Minimizing adjusted simple terms in the hesitant linguistic consensus reaching
• Part VI: Simulation experiments and comparison analysis
• Simulation experiments and comparison analysis
• Appendix.